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File this in the "we-try-it-out-so-you-don't-have-to" category. So.cl is a acquired amusing arrangement that may be advantageous to students, but it will not fly elsewhere.Over the weekend, Microsoft agilely launched an beginning amusing arrangement alleged So.cl. It's a mix amid Google+ and Storify. Users are encouraged to seek for advice about a accurate topic, again abridge the best after-effects - textual content, images and videos - into a individual post. So.cl is initially targeted to students. It may end up getting advantageous to that market, but it's absurd to get absorption as a boilerplate amusing network. Here's why...


 Microsoft is calling So.cl "an agreement in accessible search," in that annihilation you seek for on the arrangement is arresting by added users and fabricated accessible to third affair developers. That description makes it complete like a absolute adversary to Google+, which was Google's attack at accumulation seek with amusing networking. It absolutely has similarities, but So.cl is ultimately an bookish apparatus moreso than a amusing one.


 To get started, you can assurance up application either your Facebook or Windows Live profile. Microsoft had little best but to advantage Facebook's amusing graph, accustomed that hardly anyone uses Windows Live (Microsoft's ID platform). Sure abundant Facebook gave me a acceptable leg up into the So.cl network, enabling me to auto-follow over 50 people. 


 The Features When it comes to application So.cl and award amount in it, the flaws become obvious. The Storify-like accession affection in So.cl is nifty, but aggregate abroad has been done afore in hundreds of added amusing networks: posting, commenting, tagging, liking, administration (two options: to Facebook or email!). The attempts at addition in So.cl assume forced. An advantage labeled "riffing" is declared to be "a new way to collaborate and ad-lib with content" - but in reality, it artlessly agency to re-share a column and optionally add your own animadversion or content.

Vu Technologies has launched the Vu 3D camera in India, priced at Rs. 19,990. A 16MP camera, it can almanac abounding 1080p HD video in both 2D and 3D, at 30 frames per second. It is accessible at Vu food beyond the country. With the Vu 3D camera, users will be able to abduction 3D still photographs as well. It appearance bifold lens-dual sensor (DLDS) technology (two 16MP sensors), acceptance it to abduction stereoscopic images. Interestingly, Vu has aswell accustomed the Vu 3D camera a 3.2-inch autostereoscopic LCD affectation (320x480), not acute glasses.

 Users can affix the Vu 3D camera anon to an HDTV, via its HDMI port. It appearance 128MB of congenital storage, which can be broadcast via SD agenda aperture (up to 32GB). Optical zoom in 3D approach is up to 8X, while in 2D mode, it is up to 10X.

 The Vu 3D camera appearance a F3.2 lens with a 5.1mm focal length, and annal video in H.264 (avi) format. It can almanac 720p HD video at 60fps in 3D and 2D, yield still images in 2M, 5M, 16M (firmware Interpolation) sizes, and 2D still images in 2M, 5M, 8M, 16M (firmware Interpolation) sizes.

 Commenting on the barrage of the Vu 3D camera, Vu Technologies’ CEO, Devita Saraf said:

 “At Vu Technologies, we accept consistently been advanced of the ambit in agreement of innovation, be it with articles like the Super TV or the TelePresence. The 3D camera is addition such innovation, and we are admiring to be introducing it at a time if the bazaar absolutely understands technology. We accept that our artefact will see immense appeal in a country like India for several reasons. First, there has been a huge auction of 3D TVs in India with actual little admission or availability to accurate 3D content. Second, about-face of 2D to 3D in accepted 3D TV doesn’t absolutely accord the absolute aftereffect of 3D. Through this introduction, we aim to arch the bazaar gap and action a band-aid no artefact in the accepted bazaar book offers.”